I hear a lot of complaints about saddles. I found a particular saddle at Performance that I liked. It was inexpensive so I waited until it went on sale and I bought 5 of them. Now I have them on 4 bikes and a spare in case something new magically appears in my garage.

Recently I heard about a bike shop not too far from home that has a bin full of "take offs" for $10 a pop. I am assuming they mean saddles taken off new bikes that were sold but the customer wanted a saddle swap. I am going to get down there later in the week and see if that is true. If a friend has a saddle problem, that's sure worth a shot at any local shop. All this goes without saying I would love to try to help that one guy get his current saddle adjusted properly. I bet that is as much of his problem as anything.

I sure wish I worked closer to home. I do commute a few times a year by bike but the 52 mile round trip isn't something you can do more than a couple of times a week and only when the weather is guaranteed to be nice. The drive is somewhat shorter but there is a river crossing involved and I have to go a bit out of the way to get to a bridge with a bike lane. And I have to bring everything I want to wear in the day before because there is no way I am humping all that too and from work on the bike. The really funny thing is that there are some 20-something guys at work who think doing a ride like that is too much. Man, those guys better start using it before they lose it. If I was within 10 miles of work I'd ride almost every day -- in fact I'd probably try riding every day for a month and at least once per week for an entire year.

I run a car at Speed Week which really kills the riding in the last two weeks of July through late August but that's OK because it's usually really hot then. I really like the spring and fall.